| 单词 |
pityocampa |
| 释义 |
‖ pityocampa Also 7 pityocampe, -pie. [L., ad. Gr. πιτυοκάµπη, f. πίτυς, πιτυο- pine-tree + κάµπη caterpillar.] The larva of the Pine Procession moth (Onethocampa pityocampa).
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 666 The most venomous is that which is called Pityocampe, whose biting is poyson. Ibid., Vlpian..esteemeth the giver of any Pityocampie in drink or otherwise to any one, to be doomed a murtherer. 1706Phillips, Pityocampa, a Worm breeding in the Pine-tree, the biting of which is venomous. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. iv. (1818) I. 131 Of this nature also is the famous Pityocampa of the ancients, the moth of the fir. |

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